The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1900, Page 1

Tall, VOLUME LXXXVII- it}4 SAN FRA\’CIS(JO, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900. CHINESE SLAVE GIRLS LANDED AS NATIVE DAUGHTERS Shameful Traffic in Oriental Bhattels, Which Is Being Main- : tained as a Source of Great Profit by the Local: Ring, Revealed in Documents Which Have Been Pre-: sented fo the Federal Authorities. Women ““Students” Admitied at This Point by Collector of the Port Jackson to Be Slavery for the Ring_; mps are wolal- 1zos, landing wpon the " mamtam 15 1g-house ana 1te profit o f mate profit out of amounts ap a month. lers are manip- Federal machin- onsible trade 7000 agents of the ing in their hundreds right to leave th they came until they have beewn re- leased in the manner provided by | Federal law. Sobold has become the traffic that after Collector of the Port John P. Jackson has landed 10,000 Chinese Mail Mail dock f Chinese that have no Pacific pen at the in thirty-four months, after he has| created- 3000 coolie citizen voters, the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pamy is holding over two hundred | more upon its dock.” Some of these are herd- | e ships upon twhich | Sold Info Hideous' Benefit of a Sordid PP S e>e Db e >+ GEQBG e piEEY - IMPORTER OF NATE BAvenMTERS" _ D S T SR D e R D= D-0-B-¥ P49 ave been denied admission to this untry, but they still vemain, pay- ing tribute to the Pacific Mail and ping for a reversal of the judg- nent which denied them admission. Am rnr' them are thirty-six “native ns” who have been denied a land- but the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.is taking no-steps to send them back to China. Among them {is a Chinese “native daughter,” | saw the United States | wentil ‘the wessel upon -which she (:(azm' neared the Golden Gate. | She has supplied with questions -and- answers mg, | zho. mever ; been “coaching” | to deceive duty it is to kill a slave trade at this | port and prevent the importation of coolies. her lesson well. Her attorney | threatens to demand a writ of ha- | beas corpus unless she be landed | And “to expose the outrageous questions which this woman learned | until her memory was faithful to tie b e e b e bebebebed the Federal officers whose | ny | This woman has learned | traffic. which disgraces the city| and its_officials The . Call - re- | produces ‘this morning a_ trans-| |lated copy of these coaching O 8-84-C-4-0-0-0-¢ 0% |.o€ . - b [ < . them and . through which, by the scheming of a ring of Chinese im- porters, she was to become a “na- tive daughter” of California. expose perhaps may be interesting to the Collector of the Port. Tt may | be mews perhaps to the United. States District Attorney, whose duty it is to see that Chinese are not illegally landed at San Francisco. HE trafic in Chinese which is being maintained by a powerful and corrupt ring at this: port | has become more than ever a menace to the people of this gity. After the startling expose made by The Call the members of the ring temporarily sus- pended their operations, which have now been renewed. Writs of habeas corpus are now being demanded for the releasa The| CHIU LI SHL, THE SLAVE . GI1RL: .. i g ”’ 6 .M»yfv e \ { | S SR S Rt e Mfiu»r oW s mw }\Y\ 5%‘ ’ SCENES AND INCIDENTS IN THE CHINESE SLAVE TRADE OF THIS CITY. of ‘cuolie “native sons.” Chinese slave girls are being passed futo the. city under the guise of ‘native daughters” -and scores of Chinese are on the Pacific Mall dock waiting without authority of law to be landed. The vessels which brought them to this port have departed and still the Chinese remain a source of great profit to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany and a menace to. the people of the State. In the violations wkich are being made of the exclusion act, none are more fla- grant or glaring than those through which San Franciseo is made a slave port in which traffic is made in human flesh, Wo-"| men slaves are being imported here, and because of the danger and difficulty of getting them ‘into the city great -prices are being pald for them. Collector of the Port John P. Jackson declares that he has admitted but one Chinese woman. . He has neglected- yvet to inform the public how many Chinese girls he has permitted to, land. He has ‘taken no one except a few favored -attorneys into his con- fidence to tell how many native daughters EIN e as el aeas | | g SROR IR SRR A T AR SRR e e e gy fitey a Harvest of w7 a3y £ ovhont sz " ers oy s sy i of Californla, all, strangely enough, barn before June 6, 1582, have come Into San Francisco during his administration and | have passed directly Irom the dock of the | Pacific Malil into ‘siave-shops of .Chmna- town. - ‘And if the Collector of the Peért chooses to: give an explanation he might tell also why it is that the records of the Chinese Bureau in referénce to the land- ing of female slaves are.incompleté con- trary to law.. The ‘Coliector of the Port might also unburden himself ‘and inform the public why it Is that in the cases of Chinese women thé services of the Chi- nese Bureau. have been dispensed . with, outside agents -have been employed and an investigation which-in evéry aspect in- vites fraud has been not only permitted but encouraged. ~ In explalning the slave- trade of San Francisco the Collector might also if he wishes tell why it has been during his administration that $9 per cent of Chinese women have "been -dm]fled_ when they wistied to be. The traffic in Chinese female lllv. dinh ing the administration of Collector. Jack- son has not-been necessarily a= “'l""'- B T S e e A SR ] e R S S S N O s e S S SL S S S o o S b o o O S S S o o o o-soe0e0e0®| + ? ) 4 \ ¢ b ] ? L as has been the trade in Chinese male coolies, but it has been great enough to | | bring many thousands of dollars of dis- | honest profit to those who have engaged in | it and to bring needless shame to the of- ficials who have permitted it. The method | of importation of slave girls is practically | the same as that of coolie laborers. As | the members of the ring found that it was | a matter of no difficulty to import coolies as ‘‘merchants, students and. tourlsts,” | and a matter of the greatest ease to land | them In the city as native-born American | citizens, so they found it easy to import slave women as merchants’ wives, ‘stu- dents, seamstresses and “native daugh- ters.” There is now in China a man whose scheme in this local slave trade has al- ready been exposed by The Call. - His name i{s Lee Chee, and he was sent an April 1 to Hongkong by the Chinese slave dealers of Chinatown. ~He has already begun his operations, and -it may be a | matter of Interest. to Collector Jackson to | know {hat iee Chee has already.. con- | tracted ‘to bring to_this port and land | thirty-tliree Chinese ‘women slaves ‘as | merchants’ wives. When Lee Chee left | this city the traffic in' Chine¢e was abso- Jutely safe. Enormous sums of money were being made In it, and either the ig- norance | ¢r ¢onnivance of men Ir high places was guaraniee that it would mot be interrupted. . The Supreme Court. of the United States had cpened a new avenue for the importation of slaves, and this explains why Lee Chee has undertaken the desperate task of landing thirty-three Chinese women at once.” This iInformatian | may: be.of value to the Collector of the | Port when he permits_outsidé interpreters | to examine the cases of Chinese wcmen. The Collector of the Port may also dfs- cern some value In-the information that | the ‘slave dealers- of Chinatown and. the | favoged clique of tawyers which is landing | Chinese boat. women as native. daughters of California have sets of coaching ques- | tions which these siaves and thefr -wit- nessés learn by: heart before they appear before the -Collector. The existence of | thes coaching =~ questions. .is ‘known to | every one interésted In- the local slave ! trade cxcept the -Collectar of -the - Port. | These coaching questions.are made in sets ‘of four. -One set is. for .the Chinese witnesses who are to testify to the claims of thé slave that she 18 a native-born womar ‘of this country. - Another set is | for the agent of the slave dealers who is | operating in China.. A third sét is for the | slave applicant = herself. ‘and_ s to. be| , learned by heart and destroyed before she | reaches ;port. It may interest the Collector of the Port to know that there.is' now on the Pacific Mail' dack a . Chinese “‘native daughter’ PRICE FIVE CENTS. e e Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany Reaping an |ll-Gotten One Thousand ~ Dollars a Month, ‘Goolie Merchants, Tourists and Studenis Held on the Ma|l Dock to Pay Toil in Violation of Law, @erstese e ieseieseg ——j has learned } set of coachi ing ques jon to and doubt he Cail reproduces t probably ¢ t » daugh China ticular ‘“na city and 1 182 If the of gates further will also learn that the Chinese importer of this woman q with his attorney in reference t price that should be charz misston of t his inves Jackson maj mation fre H. Pippy While the witnesses nese t have sets is also another set for the C dlemen in this who, 1 iarreled er Collector nable infor- api city local cenditions wi torneys who ha v ent ministration. 1s members of the ring that are ) slave an Francisco appear be fore Col Jackson. As a result S Francisco many Chinese “mna Zaughters.”. Ip = order 1o .expose traffic which is bringing shame to city The Call will particularize in th instances. In the »t February last s Chinese woms this port. Her name, i of Quon Kr-u&l She ? presented n admitted San Fr: She is now a Chi - lave In Baker She is the prope of the Chi who swore that she is his w of the Port or the 1 es to do so he may nleice. The Call graph this morning slave shop in which to repay the exp master and the fe yers which has tb | nese slaves at 't man ““hust ble. surpr t the existence of a in sco, can readily place In th “wives S merchant i at th on { March 6 of two Chinese women applled for ad on. They arrived on the steamer ¢ 1 They gave their names and ¢ k Hung Lir ses were as plausible se witnesses always are The stor ndentship was well told Outside through the courtesy of the Collector of the Port, were gener: and the women d. Their at torney was Colonel H. Pippy they are now e girls In the building owned by the brother-in-law of h Honor James D. Phelan, the Mayor of San Francisco. These Chinese women were brought. to this eity as slaves. The subterfuge through which they were ad- mitted to San Franciseo was. plain to a casual - observer. The examination their witnesses was pecullar and it is in- teresting that the report of the Chiness Bureau their admission is not among t al records where It prop- erly bel Perhaps the most Interesting case which filustrates the evil of the importation of Chinese women fs still pending. The woman who demands admission claims to be a “native ds htor” ~ Her name 1s Wat Ho, and the authorities' who are au- thorized to report upon her case have ree- ommended her admission. Over her also s quarrel happened between her Chi- nese snonsor and the attorney who was credited. with possessing the mecessary power to land her. She is, probably, not a slave woman. but she possesses no right to jand in Sen Francisco as a native-born citizen of California. The Chinese who s seeking to land hersin this city has a place of business in the building in which she claims to have been born. She has been provided ~with coaching questlons and. answers and while the Federal au- thorities are deliberating upon her case sheis: detained at the dock of the Pacific Mail Company. In order that there may be no question | of the character of the traffic which is now being maintained in Chinese women at this port, a translated copy of the ¢oaching questions which this woman has received, and which she has learned with their. answers, Is reproduced. . This wo- man- belongs to. that remarkable class which claims to have left San Francisco before June 8§, 1852, The coaching ques- tioms, Which would make - her a mative daughter of California, are as follows: When they ask you ‘what is your name, answer: “My family name is Wai and my given name is Ho. This year I am 20 yeurs old. I was born in the sixth year of Kwong Sui, sixth mornth,. first.day."” When they ask you where you were born, answer: “In San Fran- (Continued on Page Five)